Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners ...

A state court has ordered the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to disclose which ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

Convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was reportedly thrown in solitary confinement after taking an unauthorized ...

Fried’s wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson has landed him in hot water with prison officials and some time in ...

That blueprint, titled “A Moment of Reckoning”, was outlined in a virtual press conference on Thursday. The blueprint calls for an end to prolonged solitary confinement, a pathway for release for ...

You might have this idea of what solitary confinement is like based on the movies: a dark hole where someone is isolated for ...

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...

State Correction Commissioner Daniel Martuscello said the officers fired were those who remained on strike Monday morning.

The son of prominent Hong Kong former publisher Jimmy Lai, who is facing possible life imprisonment in the Chinese city, has ...